Who Are We Fooling?

HOORAY! Let's legalize drugs. Then the legal drug producers could rake in the profits instead of the illegal dealers.

I can see the cigarette manufacturers -- already facing declining sales of cigarettes -- gearing up machines to mass-produce marijuana joints.

I envision these same companies packaging cocaine in attractive containers (perhaps vials for coke, tins for crack) for easy sale to all at attractive prices. The local supermarket could provide easy access with the weekly groceries.

As I see it, the rehabilitation facilities needed for the users and abusers would become as commonplace as hotels and motels. Look at all the people we could employ. And the money we could save.

With all the potheads getting stoned at cheap prices, our streets would now be free from crime and our homes once more safe for all. And our schools would once again be havens for learning.